Mumbai: Live Times is another player moving into the bustling-with-competition Hindi television news space. Founder Dilip Singh and his investors have no fears and are gung-ho about the opportunity, despite the fact that many news channel bosses have been complaining about a tight squeeze on revenues and profitability this year.
“The Indian news industry is on the cusp of a historic transformation,” said Singh, who has about 35 years of experience in media having worked for several years with Jain satellite television. “It’s India’s first advanced global multicast news hub. The hub will power multiscreen multi stream delivery across D2C, FAST and OTT platforms and other future delivery platforms.”
Technology aside, the focus, points out Singh, is going to be on delivering news with steadfast integrity.
“We will be seamlessly integrating state-of-the-art technology with an unwavering commitment to truth and transparency," added Singh. "Guided by the core Indian values of Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Live Times will work tirelessly towards providing high quality, unadulterated news and information to its viewers from local to global levels.”
The news channel is based on a Juniper L3 IT and IP backend; the news broadcasting infrastructure based on Grass Valley gear, with graphics from a high-end Ross Video system, top-of-the-rung Panasonic ENG and NDI cameras, with studio cameras being the latest Grass Valley models with newscasters having access to an active Panasonic LED wall.
Live Times is going to be launched soon and will be beaming off Insat’s GS-30 satellite giving it coverage up to down under. It will offer live news between 6 am and 11 pm daily.
